Re: Timpani Technique
Benjamin Podemski, author of the Podemski snare drum method, covers playing tympani in his method book to a very small degree. He has pictures anyway of the two main grips: French and German (French is the thumbs up method, and German looks like regular matched grip). Vic Firth himself was the principal tympanist for the Boston Orchestra (I forget which one), he has written several texts on the subject too. |